Education

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Bastion Shorts: How Safe Do Women Feel Going to College in Delhi?

A women’s college’s cultural festival in the national capital. Unknown men enter the campus that’s supposed to be secured and guarded to protect the...

Helping Children Learn From Each Other: Enter, “Heutagogy”

How can we enable students to learn from each other while granting teachers autonomy in their classrooms? Heutagogy may be the answer to better foundational learning.

The Ways an Education Nonprofit Can Fundraise in Post-Pandemic India

Imagine this. You established your organisation in 2016 to contribute to the field of education. You are almost ready to launch a fellowship program...

Open Access Chronicles: How Did We Get Here? (Chapter 1)

Narrated by Sourya Reddy Edited by Malavika VN If you're a researcher or a college student, chances are, you've probably come across websites like Sci-hub. Controversial...
Pratap Bhanu Mehta Ashoka University Academic Freedom

How Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s Exit from Ashoka University is Just the Tip of the...

Is there something innate about academia that makes a state want to control it? Does being backed by well-off, well connected, philanthropic individuals protect an academic's ideas and freedoms?

Towards Inclusive Private Schooling

During this lockdown, few private schools have hiked their fee for the current academic year. As a result, various state governments have issued guidelines...

Breaking the Binary: How University Campuses Can Be Pivotal in the Fight for Gender...

Universities are hotspots of gender diversity- what infrastructural changes do campuses need to adopt to be gender-inclusive?
Open Access India One Nation One Subscription

Open Access Chronicles: Is Implementing One Nation One Subscription Realistic? with Madhan Muthu (Chapter...

Hosted by Sourya Reddy Edited by Nidhi Rejithlal The recently proposed One Nation One Subscription idea, as part of the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP),...

How Technology is Aiding Professional Capacity Building in Maharashtra’s Education Officers

This is the final article in the three-part series in collaboration with Leadership For Equity (LFE) highlighting the challenges and needs, administrative and technological,...

Beyond More Enrolment, RTE Needs to Consider Out-of-Class Lives

In a country that seems to be obsessed with Gross Enrolment Ratios, the lives of Om and Swati, students in Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh, force us to pause and reconsider.